Richard A. (Dick) Mosholder Sr., 68, of Carmichaels R.D.1, died unexpectedly Monday, January 5, 1998, in Greene County Memorial Hospital, Waynesburg.
He was a 1948 graduate of Jefferson High School and had formerly lived in Mather and Lippencott areas.
Mr. Mosholder was retired from Gateway Coal Co. as a coal miner and an assistant mine foreman. He had formerly worked at Mather Colleries.
Mr. Mosholder was a member of Trinity Baptist Church in Waynesburg, where he was a trustee and a deacon. He was a member of the United Mine Workers of America Local 6330 and a former member of the Jefferson Volunteer Fire Company. He enjoyed farming.
On June 28, 1971, he married Judy Kelso Mosholder, who survives.
Surviving, in addition to his wife, are four daughters, Patricia Huffman of Carmichaels, Sharon Smithley of Nemacolin, Peggy Taylor of Greensboro and Susan Rogers of Carmichaels; a son, Rick Mosholder of Fort Worth, Texas; a stepson, Wayne Kern of Morgantown, W.Va.; 12 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Marcella Basinger and Norma Jean Humble, both of Waynesburg and Elsie Detling of White Oak; and two brothers, Samuel Mosholder of Bellevue, Wash., and Dewey Mosholder Jr. of Swartz Creek, Mich.
Deceased are two brothers, William Mosholder and a brother who died in infancy.
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Richard A. Mosholder
Member of Trinity Baptist Church was retired miner
He was born September 15, 1929, in Normalville, a son of Dewey and Bertha Walker Mosholder.
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